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Wealth and investment leads Aussie fintech

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... Releasing its first member ecosystem map, FinTech Australia showed wealth and investment sits alongside consumer and business lending as the two largest fintech sub-sectors. The map, which visually represents the industry body's 119 service providers ...

Super funds fight for financial inclusion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... financial exclusion places people and families at risk of financial hardships including poverty, vulnerability to predatory lending practices and poor social, emotional and health outcomes." Independent economist Saul Eslake estimates that in ten years ...

Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... September 2016. Then again, residential property price growth should continue to weaken going forward as APRA's tougher lending regulations (especially for investment housing) and mortgage rate increases and stricter lending rules imposed by banks since ...

Financial Standard to expand into Marketing and Communications educational content

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... said. Financial services is one of Australia's fastest growing industry sectors employing more than 400,000 people across lending, superannuation, insurance, investment, financial advice and project financing. Meanwhile, there are about 60,000 Marketing ...

Northern Trust names Sydney head

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... past 12 months, we have seen the office expand across our capital markets business from brokerage to include securities lending and foreign exchange services. We are complementing these additional capabilities by building a local client servicing and ...

Super funds and CEFC join investment forces

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... in emissions." Separately CEFC recently made a $20 million investment in RateSetter's Green Loan - a peer-to-peer green lending platform. It aims to bring together investors, borrowers and clean energy product providers who have a shared interest in ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... businesses has slowed to 3.1% in the year to April from 3.5% in the previous month and 7.3% in April last year. Personal lending continued to contract, down 1.5% in April - the 18th straight month of decline. Despite APRA's tighter rules on property ...

Approved to build more dwellings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Prudential Regulations Authority (APRA) - especially after its tighter home lending regulations announced in late March -- wouldn't be pleased with the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report that total ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... year that it had been in constant contraction. In addition, the BOJ's own 'Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices at Large Japanese Banks (April 2017)' report showed loan demand from households decelerated to a reading of 7 over ...

Qualitas launches fund, adds two directors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... debt financing of about $125 million. Establishing the fund fills a gap in the market left by the banks pulling back in lending activities, Qualitas group managing director Andrew Schwartz said. "Our new construction finance fund will provide a much-needed ...